Haandbryggeriet Odin’s Tipple

Brewed by Haandbryggeriet (Norway)
Style: Imperial Stout
Drammen, Norway

Serve in Snifter

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500 ml bottle, Batch 507 (3500 bottles). Served in a DFH snifter, the beer pours dark brown/black with about an inch and a half brown head that didn’t stay around for too long. There’s a decent amount of lacing. The brew smells like roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate and burnt/charred malt. Taste is similar to the aroma, but there’s the addition of some dark fruit and licorice. It starts off with the burnt/charred/roasty flavors being the strongest, but the dark fruit flavors come out more as the beer warms up. There’s also a lingering bittersweet finish. Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it’s creamy and oily with good carbonation. I think this is a pretty nice brew, I don’t know why it took so long for me to try this one. $9.99 a bottle.

Svart farve med lite beige skum som forsvinner raskt. Smak av kaffe og sjokolade. God sødme og bitterhet i avslutningen. Vinmonopolet.

Bottle from OleR, many thanks, sir. Black color with medium espresso colored head. Aroma of coffee, cocoa, dark fruits, licorice, caramel. Taste, dark roasted malt, coffee, milk chocolate, licorice, caramel, syrup, wood. Strong alcoholic, coffee bitter finish. Very tasty beer.

Bottle, batch 507. Pours black as a moonless night with the darkest head I’ve ever seen and thick, oily lacing. Hefty nose of chocolate malts, blackstrap molasses, and charred oak. Rich malty taste of chocolate, some licorice, cinnamon, and a tiny, wild, woody, vinegar bite on the back end. Nice stout.

Bottle. Pours pitch black with a huge foamy dark brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate and notes of licorice. Taste like aroma plus dark fruits, oak and alcohol. Lower side of fullbodied with perhaps a bit too much carbonation and an oily texture. Initially sweet but with a long smoky, bitter and slightly sour aftertaste. Tastes a lot better than it sounds though.

Very dark, big brown hedtad. Complex aroma, dark chocolate, iron, smoke, alcohol, almonds and soy sauce. Taste of chocolate, soy sauce, more iron. Medium sweet, quite bitter, slight sour notes. Medium mouthfeel, medium carbonation. Weird, but not weird enough to make it interesting. Bit of a disappointment, faulty bottle?

50 cl bottle.
Originally rated on 20101120.
Pours pitch black color with a medium sized beige head. Aroma of dark roasted malts, caramel, some licorice notes, hints of coffee and dark chocolate. Flavor of dark chocolate, cocoa, roasted malts, mild caramel and licorice. Rich and complex. Very good.

0,5 bottle at cardinal. Black color with tanned head thats gone fast. Nose is roasted coffee, smokey, some fruit, alcohol and breakfastcoffee. Taste is chocolaty, cigarbox, dried plum and a nice alcoholpunch in the end

Black pour with a brown head. Taste is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with lots of laurel-liquorice and dried red fruit. Vinous and chocolate notes are present. Cool IRS.

500ml bottle from Vinmonopolet. Big light brown head that fades quickly. Dark brown, almost black solid body. Aroma is sweet, with hints of wood, coffee and leather. Taste adds raisins and liquorice. The alcohol is really well hidden in this one.